Ruti Strum, mother of Hamas hostage Eitan Horn and released hostage Iair Horn, calls for the government to reunite her sons, speaking at a demonstration in Kfar Saba for the return of captives.
“I raised them together. I felt them together [while in captivity], and they were together. Why did you separate them? The government must protect its citizens and bring back everyone,” she says.
Iair Horn, 46, was abducted from his Kibbutz Nir Oz home on October 7, as Hamas terrorists swarmed through the kibbutz, killing or kidnapping one in four of the community’s residents. He was released on February 15 as part of the hostage-ceasefire deal.
Horn’s younger brother, Eitan Horn, 37 (now 38), a resident of Kfar Saba, was visiting Iair on Kibbutz Nir Oz for the holiday weekend when he was captured. Eitan remains in captivity.
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